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On 06/07/14 16:35, Daniel Campbell wrote: |
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> On 06/07/2014 01:19 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: |
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>> Hello developers and users |
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>> |
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>> The OpenRC project appears less active these days than it used to be. |
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>> There are many commits per month the last years, but the amount of |
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>> commits in 2014 per month has noticeably decreased to a crawl [1]. |
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>> Alongside that, there appears to be around ~100 bugs open for OpenRC |
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>> [2] on Gentoo Bugzilla; some of which are left without a response. |
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>> |
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>> This gives the impression that the development of it is slowing down. |
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>> |
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>> Worth noting is that WilliamH recently had problems with his system, we |
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>> have since not seen him on IRC for almost a month; so, this can for a |
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>> part explain the last month of inactivity. Although the other months of |
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>> 2014 and even 2013 to some extent show a decreasing trend. |
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>> |
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>> The state and future of the OpenRC project could be of concern. |
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>> |
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>> Therefore this call for general awareness; such that people that are |
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>> interested in this project can help, discuss measures to help the users |
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>> of these bugs as well as ensure the future of the OpenRC project. |
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>> |
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>> Thank you in advance. |
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>> |
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>> [1]: Short log of proj/openrc history, decreasing commits in 2014. |
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>> http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/openrc.git;a=shortlog |
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>> |
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>> [2]: Overview of bugs that involve OpenRC, most for the package itself. |
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>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=openrc |
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>> Disclaimer: Just to be sure, I'm not affiliated with the OpenRC project. |
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>> |
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> As someone who's been in the process of trying to become a developer and |
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> someone who believes there should be multiple init systems, I'd like to |
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> step forward and offer my assistance. pchrist was originally my mentor, |
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> but unforeseen circumstances came up and he's become mostly unable to |
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> mentor me. We discussed this and agreed that maybe I should find another |
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> developer to mentor me. I think working on OpenRC would be a great |
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> learning experience for me and would be a great opportunity to |
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> contribute to Gentoo. |
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> |
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> If you or another developer would like to take up mentoring me so I can |
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> achieve my goal of becoming a Gentoo developer and contribute, please |
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> reply and cc pchrist@g.o so we can coordinate things. I still have my |
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> ebuild test file floating around as well. |
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> I hope this doesn't come off as spammy; I'd honestly like to contribute |
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> and keep choice alive in the init system space. |
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> Sincerely, |
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> Daniel Campbell |
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> |
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Related to this, I'd like to take care of sys-apps/gentoo-functions in |
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WilliamH's absence. There's a couple of items to fix and I'd like to |
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get them done. Any objections? |
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Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. |
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E-Mail : blueness@g.o |
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